The Northern Territory regions of Greater Darwin and Katherine are now in lockdown, after the territory recorded its first ever locally acquired case of COVID-19.
A Northern Territory town entered a full lockdown for 72 hours after the Top End's first community transmitted COVID-19 case was detected.
Unvaccinated people will be locked down after a man in his 20s was diagnosed with the virus in Katherine, 320km south of Darwin.Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the unvaccinated man had not travelled outside the NT recently and he had contracted COVID-19 locally. He developed symptoms on Tuesday and came forward for testing on Wednesday before being diagnosed late on Thursday.
He's now in isolation in Katherine and would be moved to the National Centre for Resilience at Howard Springs.Mr Gunner said people who have been at an exposure site must isolate and book a COVID-19 test.Why Australia's green energy movement needs to include Aboriginal communitiesThe Greater Darwin lockout of unvaccinated people will be the NT's first with only double dosed people with a vaccination certificate able to enter business and community sites.
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